JOSEF MARIA SVOBODA* (Vienna 1918 - 2003 Vienna) Klosterneuburg, 1976 gouache/paper 30,,3 x 45,9 cm signed J. M. Svoboda, dated 76 labelled on verso Gouache near Klosterneuburg ESTIMATE °€ 200 - € 400 STARTING PRICE € 200 Josef Maria Svoboda was an Austrian painter. He primarily created portraits and landscapes. In 1946, Svoboda took his first painting lessons with Rudolf Hausner. From 1947 to 1951, he studied at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts under Robin Christian Andersen and Robert Eigenberger. In 1950, he received the Academy's Meisterschulpreis (master school prize). He graduated from the Academy with a diploma in 1951. From 1952 onwards, Svoboda participated in over 70 exhibitions at home and abroad: at the Zedlitzhalle in Vienna, the Künstlerhaus, the Secession, the Palais Palffy, Florence, Innsbruck, Feldkirch, Piran, Ústí nad Labem, Litoměřice, Kraków, Mödling, Laxenburg, Brunn am Gebirge, Krems, Langenlois, Gumpoldskirchen, Linz, and St. Pölten, among others. In 1953, he became a member of the Gemeinschaft bildender Künstler Wiens (Vienna Artists' Association), Zedlitzhalle. In 1961, he joined the Gemeinschaft bildender Künstler Österreichs (Austrian Association of Fine Artists, Künstlerhaus); in 1962, he became a member of the Berufsverband bildender Künstler Österreichs (Austrian Professional Association of Fine Artists). In 1977, he was accepted as a member of the Mödling Artists' Association (Mödling Künstlerbund) and "Die Spirale." In 1978, he was awarded the title of professor. Paintings by Josef Maria Svoboda are in the following public collections: Federal Ministry of Education and the Arts, Lower Austria Museum, Arbeiterkammer (Chamber of Labour), Österreichische Galerie Belvedere (Austrian Gallery Belvedere), and Göttweig Abbey. Further artists and styles: Expressionism, Realism, Landscape, Johann Georg Platzer, Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Friedrich von Amerling, Otto Wagner, Eduard Ameseder, Carl O'Lynch of Town, Richard Gerstl, Max Domenig, Robin Christian Andersen, Egon Schiele, Paul Kassecker, Hans Kneslm Heinz Leinfellner, Rudolf Hausner, Joannis Avramidis, Maximilian Melcher, Alfred Hrdlicka, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Arik Brauer, Wolfgang Hollegha, Anton Lehmden, Josef Mikl, Ernst Fuchs, Armin Pramstaller, Cornelius Kolig, Meina Schellander, Franz West, Gottfried Helnwein, Manfred Deix, Heimo Zobernig, Gunter Damisch, Daniel Richter, Monica Bonvicini, dorit Margreiter, Herbert Boeckl, Josef Dobrowsky, Albert Paris Gütersloh, Josef Dobrowsky, Herbert Boeckl, Franz Grabmayr, Anton Lehmden, Alfred Hrdlicka PLEASE NOTE: The purchase price consists of the highest bid plus the buyer's premium, sales tax and, if applicable, the fee of artists resale rights. In the case of normal taxation (marked °), a premium of 24% is added to the highest bid. The mandatory sales tax of 13%, for photographys 20%, is added to the sum of the highest bid and the buyer's premium. The buyer's premium amounts to 28% in case of differential taxation. The sales tax is included in the differential taxation.